Aesthetic Townscape

Name: Aesthetic Townscape
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ISBN: 9780262510318

ISBN-10: 0262510316

ISBN-13: 9780262510318

Edition: N/A

Authors: Yoshinobu Ashihara, Lynne E. Riggs

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Japan's most celebrated architects, develops in this book a cross-cultural perspective on how people actually perceive and experience the urban environments they come into contact with. The Aesthetic Townscapespans East and West, ranging from traditional villages of Japan, dwellings of the Italian Apulia, and gardens of the Aegean islands to New York, Chandigarh, and Brasilia. It compares and contrasts the handling of such spatial elements as walls, floors, and doorways in different cultures, and considers the demarcations between interior and exterior, private and public spaces in both modern and ancient architecture and town planning. The book is extensively illustrated with night…

Book details

List price: $12.50
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 9/13/1984
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 195
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English